We can debate whether or not the coming metaverse is going to end society as we know it, but at least now we can dress up as cool Resident Evil characters as it happens.
Fortnite has just released a pair of skins bolstering its collection of Capcom crossovers. Resident Evil’s Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield join Street Fighter’s Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy and Guile as new playable skins, and each has two versions.
Jill Valentine has her looks from Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 3. Chris Redfield has his from Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 8. All the variants look great, and are going to be hard to resist for fans.
What’s perhaps the most surprising about this collaboration is that it didn’t leak beforehand. Not through the usual datamining sources, and I didn’t even hear through my backchannels that it was coming, which is pretty unusual. It seems to be something that caught everyone, even leakers, off guard, and I kind of wonder how Fortnite pulled that off. They didn’t tease it in-game either, and the STARS store data only showed up a few hours before the skins were released.
Fortnite also released a trailer to celebrate the arrival of the skins which you can see below:
Their appearance is in keeping with the Fortnitemares event going on now to celebrate Halloween, where players are on the map killing cube monsters. Along with that zombie theme, we had The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes show up not all that long ago.
Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield are now the two latest additions to my list of Fortnite licensed IP characters that have arrived in the game, as Fortnite boasts the largest collection of IPs really..anywhere. The other video game characters we’ve gotten over the past few years is:
- Master Chief
- Kratos
- Ryu
- Chun-Li
- Lara Croft
- Aloy
- Borderlands Psycho (with Claptrap)
- Cammy
- Guile
It’s a shorter list than say, the Marvel or DC superheroes they’ve collected, but it’s getting longer. Clearly Capcom is on board with frequent collaborations, as they now make up half the list themselves. So it’s easy to imagine we could be getting say, Devil May Cry or Monster Hunter Fortnite skins in the future, which would no doubt be big-sellers. Or more Resident Evil characters, as there are plenty more cast members that could appear. Personally, I’m rooting for Nemesis and Lady Dimitrescu. Big hitboxes, though.
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